China Factory

This is the first time Apple has assembled its iPhone 16 Pro models outside China, highlighting a major shift in the tech giant's global production strategy.

Three persons, including a 10-year-old boy, were killed in an accident at a China clay manufacturing factory near Bhuj in Gujarat's Kutch district on Saturday, police said.

A factory owner in China recently shared a payout of nearly $1 million (approximately Rs 8.22 crores) with more than 400 former employees 20 years after the unit in central China was shut down.

Over a year after Chinese fast-fashion company Shein promised to tackle overwork and excessive work hours in its supply chain, a new report claims that the firm still has a problem.

Apple supplier Foxconn will invest over $1.5 billion (roughly Rs. 12,500 crore) in India as the company looks to expand production of Apple's iPhone in the country, according to a report. The move comes a year after the Taiwanese firm's factories in China were severely impacted by the country's strict COVID-19 restrictions in 2022. The company also...

A top beer producer in China is investigating a viral video that appears to show a factory employee urinating into an ingredient container.

The income tax officials visited on Wednesday a factory of Chinese Personal Computer maker Lenovo Puducherry and one of its offices in Bengaluru city as part of an inquiry, two sources told Reuters.

Xiaomi has won the approval of China's state planner to manufacture electric vehicles (EVs), said two people with knowledge of the matter, marking a major step towards the smartphone maker's goal of producing cars by early next year.

As Tesla examines building a plant in India, officials have asked the company to emulate Apple in finding local firms to partner with any Chinese suppliers involved, according to three government sources with direct knowledge of the matter.

India rejected Chinese carmaker BYD Co.'s proposal to build a $1 billion electric-vehicle plant in partnership with a local company, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

Tesla is set to realise fully autonomous vehicles "later this year", CEO Elon Musk said Thursday. "In terms of where Tesla is at this stage, I think we are very close to achieving full self-driving without human supervision," Musk said. Elon Musk has missed his own deadlines for a fully autonomous vehicle and Tesla's driver-assistance technology ha...

In the letter, former Samsung executive Choi Jinseog said the factory was planned for Taiwan's Foxconn, for early test production of DRAM memory chips, while Samsung's plant in Xian was designed to manufacture NAND flash memory chips.

When former Samsung executive Choi Jinseog won a contract with Taiwan's Foxconn in 2018, he tapped his former employer's supplier network to steal secrets to help his new client set up a chip factory in China, an indictment by South Korean prosecutors alleges.

As news broke on Saturday that mercenary Wagner troops were careering towards Moscow in a short-lived rebellion, several businessmen from southern China began frantically calling factories to halt shipments of goods destined for Russia.

A former Samsung executive has been charged with stealing company secrets for a copycat computer chip factory in China, and is being held in detention pending trial, prosecutors told AFP on Tuesday.

This is the first time Apple has assembled its iPhone 16 Pro models outside China, highlighting a major shift in the tech giant's global production strategy.

Three persons, including a 10-year-old boy, were killed in an accident at a China clay manufacturing factory near Bhuj in Gujarat's Kutch district on Saturday, police said.

A factory owner in China recently shared a payout of nearly $1 million (approximately Rs 8.22 crores) with more than 400 former employees 20 years after the unit in central China was shut down.

Over a year after Chinese fast-fashion company Shein promised to tackle overwork and excessive work hours in its supply chain, a new report claims that the firm still has a problem.

Apple supplier Foxconn will invest over $1.5 billion (roughly Rs. 12,500 crore) in India as the company looks to expand production of Apple's iPhone in the country, according to a report. The move comes a year after the Taiwanese firm's factories in China were severely impacted by the country's strict COVID-19 restrictions in 2022. The company also...

A top beer producer in China is investigating a viral video that appears to show a factory employee urinating into an ingredient container.

The income tax officials visited on Wednesday a factory of Chinese Personal Computer maker Lenovo Puducherry and one of its offices in Bengaluru city as part of an inquiry, two sources told Reuters.

Xiaomi has won the approval of China's state planner to manufacture electric vehicles (EVs), said two people with knowledge of the matter, marking a major step towards the smartphone maker's goal of producing cars by early next year.

As Tesla examines building a plant in India, officials have asked the company to emulate Apple in finding local firms to partner with any Chinese suppliers involved, according to three government sources with direct knowledge of the matter.

India rejected Chinese carmaker BYD Co.'s proposal to build a $1 billion electric-vehicle plant in partnership with a local company, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

Tesla is set to realise fully autonomous vehicles "later this year", CEO Elon Musk said Thursday. "In terms of where Tesla is at this stage, I think we are very close to achieving full self-driving without human supervision," Musk said. Elon Musk has missed his own deadlines for a fully autonomous vehicle and Tesla's driver-assistance technology ha...

In the letter, former Samsung executive Choi Jinseog said the factory was planned for Taiwan's Foxconn, for early test production of DRAM memory chips, while Samsung's plant in Xian was designed to manufacture NAND flash memory chips.

When former Samsung executive Choi Jinseog won a contract with Taiwan's Foxconn in 2018, he tapped his former employer's supplier network to steal secrets to help his new client set up a chip factory in China, an indictment by South Korean prosecutors alleges.

As news broke on Saturday that mercenary Wagner troops were careering towards Moscow in a short-lived rebellion, several businessmen from southern China began frantically calling factories to halt shipments of goods destined for Russia.

A former Samsung executive has been charged with stealing company secrets for a copycat computer chip factory in China, and is being held in detention pending trial, prosecutors told AFP on Tuesday.